While the coronavirus pandemic may have thrown a spanner in the works for last year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, the annual literary event is back for 2021. The program boasts a diverse range of events, featuring more than 400 local and international writers from April 26 to May 2. There is a promising virtual line-up including Kazuo Ishiguro, Isabel Wilkerson, and Geraldine Brooks, and in-person events featuring David Malouf, Tanya Plibersek, and more. This year’s theme Within Reach is underpinned by a sense of hope; illuminating local writers within the varied and ever-changing Australian literary landscape.

2SER Breakfast Host Alex James sat down with Michael Williams, the Artistic Director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, to hear more…

Tickets go on sale at 9am on 12 March, and are available on the Sydney Writers’ Festival website.